How To Protect Your Eyes from Cosmetics
For many women, applying and removing makeup is fairly routine. However, many women may be unaware how improper use of makeup can cause infections, allergic reactions, and even eye injury. Eye problems might range from watery eyes, to corneal abrasions and even vision loss. The following tips should help protect your eyes from makeup. If you wear contacts, […]
How to Improve Night Vision while Driving
Seeing at night can often be challenging, due to decreased visual distance and sensitivity to contrasts in brightness. Here are some ways to improve your eyesight when driving in the dark. Driving with contacts you’ve been wearing all day may cause fuzziness due to protein buildup on the lenses. Be aware that this creates glare […]
What Happens When Your Eyes Are Dilated?
During eye examinations, a doctor can examine the inside of your eyes by looking through the pupil to the retina. Ordinarily, our pupils shrink when a doctor shines a light into them. With special eye drops that dilate the eye, our pupils will open wide even when light is applied. People with light eye color […]
How To Travel with Glasses and Contacts
When it comes time to travel, those of us with glasses or contacts have a little more to think about when packing our bags. The following suggestions should help enjoy a hassle-free trip. Eyeglasses Contact Lenses If wearing contacts or glasses, it’s always a good idea to keep a copy of your prescription with you, […]
Which Eye Conditions are Hereditary?
Genetics are a common factor in contracting a number of eye conditions, many of which are the leading causes of blindness in children and infants. In fact, congenital diseases account for more than 60% of infant blindness. In adults, glaucoma and macular degeneration may be inherited much of the time. Genetically-linked eye problems include the […]
How to Protect Your Eyes During Summer
Putting on sunscreen might protect our skin during the long days of summer, but are we properly protecting our eyes from sunlight reflecting off sand and water? The more time we spend outdoors, the more we expose our eyes to bright sunlight, particularly UV rays which damage the eye’s surface tissue. When the eyes get […]
Protect Your Eyes on 4th of July
It should come as no surprise that the Fourth of July is considered America’s most dangerous holiday on account of eye injuries; though July 4th presents many risks, not just because of illegal fireworks but because of legal displays as well. Each year, nearly a thousand people are treated in emergency rooms for fireworks injuries, with […]
How Better Lighting Can Improve Vision
Your parents may have told you that reading in poor light would damage your eyes. The truth is that incorrect lighting probably won’t cause permanent eye damage, although it can cause eyestrain because the eyes are working harder to focus. The best cure for eye strain is resting the eyes by looking at something far […]
Do Calcium Supplements Increase the Risk of Macular Degeneration?
According to a cross-sectional study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), participants 68 and older taking more than 800 milligrams of calcium a day were almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition causing severe vision loss. The association between AMD and calcium intake was not […]
Are Contact Lens Wearers More Prone to Eye Infections?
New research from the NYU Langone Medical Center has showed that changes in bacteria populations may be the reason contact lens wearers are more prone to certain types of eye infections. For people who wore contacts, the bacteria on the surface of the eye was more similar to the bacteria in the eyelids. For people who didn’t […]